The life of Abraham Lincoln is by most accounts an amazing study in character formation. Yet he was notoriously disorganized; he even had a file in his law office labeled If you can’t find it anywhere else, try looking here.
JOHN ORTBERGOne reason why we fail to hear God speak is that we are not attentive. We suffer from what might be called ‘spiritual mindlessness.’
More John Ortberg Quotes
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Too often we argue about Christianity instead of marveling at Jesus.
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Failure is not an event, but rather a judgment about an event. Failure is not something that happens to us or a label we attach to things. It is a way we think about outcomes.
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Prayer allows us to wait without worry.
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Your Mission starts where you are,Not where you think you should be.Sometimes we’re tempted to think that our current position/job/situation is a barrier to our mission, but, in fact, it is where it starts.
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A bad sermon is like a car wreck – everyone slows down to see what happened.
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Art is built on the deepest themes of human meaning: good and evil, beauty and ugliness, life and death, love and hate. No other story has incarnated those themes more than the story of Jesus.
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Willpower is trying very hard not to do something you want to do very much.
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Peace does not lie in getting God to give me other circumstances. Peace lies in finding God in these circumstances.
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True love is willing to warn, reprove, confront or admonish when necessary.
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Joylessness may be the sin most readily tolerated by the church.
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Nobody lives up to the norms that God had in mind when he first created human beings.
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Who you become while you’re waiting is as important as what you’re waiting for.
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When we live in the love of God, we begin to pay attention to people the way God pays attention to us.
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Jesus gave the world its most influential movement.
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God has entrusted us with his most precious treasure – people. He asks us to shepherd and mold them into strong disciples, with brave faith and good character.
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